Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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